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...conflict, but next year he intends to start training as a primary school teacher. After searching in vain for a sponsor to pay for his tuition - he was knocked back by aid organizations - Buarobo says his fees will be paid by an "honorable man," his Malaitan M.P., Fred Fono. And why would he do that? "Because I voted for him," the earnest, clean-living Buarobo replies...
...Finger-Fono. All this scriptural activity flows from a paneled, portrait-hung board room on Manhattan's Park Avenue, headquarters of the Society. Founded in 1816, its first president was Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey Presbyterian who served as president of the Continental Congress. In 1819 it began supplying Bibles, New Testaments and extracts to overseas mission aries, and as of 1962 the grand total distributed had reached over 624 mil lion, in languages and dialects ranging from Apache to Zulu...
Since 1835 the Society has provided Scriptures for the blind in both the Braille and Moon systems, and since 1944 it has produced a 831-hour recorded version of the Bible. Its Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...
...they are actually brothers-in-law and close personal friends. But feud or no, the fighting has been magnificent. Ordoñez, with his sweeping circulares, has been turning bulls into nosing calves. More than once, Dominguin has gone to his knees and performed his showstopper, el teléfono: leaning casually on the bull's head as he talks into a horn...
...been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable, the saw mill was sold. . . . The Samoans do not take a great interest in the Department of Agriculture . . . administered by the chief radio electrician. . . . The annual Fono [Islands' native council] recommended that the selling and serving of beer to young men under 18, and all women, be prohibited. . . . Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with...
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